The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| Maine this year than any year previous within
| the remembrance of the oldest furrier in the
| State.
FIVE THOUSAND Indians are expected in Taco
ma W. T., shortly to assist in picking the hol
crop. They come from points as far off as
Alaska
THE Jackson, Mich, fire department is now
the possessor of a mk-white rattlesnake
eighteen inches long, with pink eyes and nine
rattles.
A MODEST little tin sign in black and white in
a New York doorway attracts much attention.
1t reads; Noses repaired, reduced, enlarged
and painted"
A WHOLE STREET full of people was terrorized
by mad cat" in Passaic n. j., the other day
until no less a parsonage than the Chief OF
Police came to their relief.
GREASY JOE" WHELAN is a local celebrity in
Pttsburg, Pa. His claim to notoriety lies in
his fondness for drinking crude petroleum. He
is fond or the stuff, and it seems to agree with
him.
THERE are but three survivors of the eighteen
actors who played Our American Cousin" on
the night of President Lincoln's assassination
in Ford's Theatre-Harry Hawk, w. j. Fergu-
son and John Mathews.
CLARK SMITH, of Fort Supply, and Miss Gus
sey Mason, of Fort Sill, 200 miles apart, were
married by telegraph on Monday. The report
ceremony was given by means of lightning"
THE ''Cleopatra's Needle" that now stands in
Central Park, New York, is thought by a writer
in the London Athengun,, who bases his theory
upon very rare Arabic manuscript in the
British Museum to have been one of pair that
stood on a single pedestal.
A MILITARY POST near Bismarck D. T., has a
sensation. beautiful nun sent out to teach
the Indians has fallen in love with a handsome
to be disciplined within convent walls, the officer
being married man whose wife is visiting in
the East.
THE tomb of Gen. Lafayette, in the private
cemetery of the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
in Paris. was decorated, by large number of
Americans on the day before the French ma
tional holiday. A society was formed for the
purpose of presenting statue of Lafayette to
the city of Paris.
A BACHELORS IDEA of a comfortable house,
when the bachelor has plenty of money is illus
trated by the mansion which Justice Gray is
building in Washington The entire second floor
and it is a house of great size-will be entirely
devoted to the owners wants-big bed room, big
library and bathroom. Meek and mild married
men seldom get such quarters.
A STRANGER stepped into Chicago shooting
gallery day or two ago and spent a few min
utes in firing at target. In six shots he broke
a window in the side of the building, destroyed
one of the gas fixtures, put a hole through his
hat which he had hung on the wall, and famed
a dog, The owner of the shooting gallery Sus
poets him of being an escaped French duelist.
BURGLARS are sometimes so fastidious as to
decline to take anything but gold coin, but all
members of the profession are not so hard to
please. A St. Louis detective recalls the case of
thief who stole hive of bees of another who
stole skeleton from dime museum, of another
who relieved menagere of case of rattle
gnaEpC yyhn rier rcto aTr,f1i
and OF still another who confiscated the clothing
OF baby that had not yet arrived in the world.
ONE well-known countess, whose life is spent
in devising new varieties of social pleasures
gave canine Fat home'' week or two since,
at her London home, at which more than fifty
pet dogs, principally terriers, pugs, and dachs-
hunds, put in an appearance A cold collation.,
served on a special dinner service, was pro-
vided, while as q delicate attention, several
live rats were placed in a back room for the ter
riers, who were equal to the more exciting task
OF worrying them. So ".
THE Virginians cannot locate the spot where
Capt. John Smith was to have been killed. A
Richmond man says: Sometimes we have
strong reasons for locating the spot at Pow
haitian just below the city; then again we
think it ought to be farther down the river.
Many relic hunters have Clipped pieces from a
big rock at 'Powhatan, believing that they
were securing fragments of the stone upon
which Smiths head was placed to receive blows
from the clubs of the Indians"
INDEPENDENCE, in Polk county, Oregon, is
likely to secure more lawyers, taiors and dress
makers than may be needed there, in conse-
quence of the wide publicity given TO an appeal
from resident, who says: This town has
neither a lawyer, a tailor nor dreSsmaker, and
one of each is sadly needed here. We had a
good dressmaker, but she moved to Corvallis
having property there. The tailor moved to
Albany and our lawyer was elected District At
torney and had to live in Salem"
ToADs it is stated by an observer in Westfield.
Mass. are duped by electric lights lately located
in some retired streets there. 1t is asserted that
the batrachians. attracted by she brilliant light
when the streets are quiet, gather by dozens
under it and hold high revels. The greatly en-
larged shadows of countless insects fluttering
around the light fall upon the ground and the
innocent toads, thinking them to be real, hop
about in all directions to catch them making it
seem as though they were going through a
merry cotillion.
THE rabbit pest is so bad at MERGED, Cal, that
hunters are employed to do nothing else but
hunt them down. Over 1000 of them have been
killed this season, and the good work still goes
on" Hunters are furnished horses wagons and
ammunition, and ere paid &c for every one they
bring in dead. After being brought in and
counted the rab' its are thrown into an immense
vat to which a certain amount f grain is added
and then the entire mass is boled to turn
after which il is fed to the hogs. Boiled lack
rabbit is dish much sought after by the San
Joaquin rooters.
SENIOR Francisco LIENFIEsTA. formerly Guate-
malan Minister at Washington, has returned to
this country with his two daughters on a special
mission the nature of which will not be dis
closed until after his arrival at the national
capital but which, it is limited, aimsat the nego-
tiation of Il new commercial treaty between the
two countries. Accompanying Senior Iienfesta
are Senior Enri Neutz. a large coffee planter and
exporter of Guatemala, now en- route to Europe
and Senior /. Asparacio the owner of several
large coffee plantations. The latter gentleman
IS brother of the widow of the late President
Barrios.
\ WELL DRESSED MAN attempted the other day
to board the front platform of Grand street
car in Jersey City, N. j. He missed his footing
fell TO the ground and the iron wheels crushed
over one of his legs, completely severing it at
the knee. There was a cry Of horror among the
people who saw the acc dent, and two ladies'
tainted The wounded man showed wonderful
sef-contr j and stoicism, and crept unaided to
the curbstone before the frightened bystanders
could reach him. So composed was he, in feet
that one man, growing suspicious, went and
picked up the amputated limb. One look at the
should bebut wasn't CHASTITY and bleeding frag
ment of mortality explained the mans stoicism.
The leg was artificial. The fainting women had
recovered by this time and hurried away after
one scathing look at the victim, who unfe engly
laughed at them and went home in carriage.